What You Need to Know: Sweden’s Gotland-class submarines have proven indispensable in safeguarding Baltic waters, particularly against Russian incursions. Built in the 1990s and equipped with ...

A Gotland-class sub can even operate close to the seabed, which only enhances the submarine’s stealth, as it helps to reduce the sub’s acoustic signature.

The Gotland Class can also act like a traditional diesel-electric submarine and run on its standard diesel engines while surfaced or snorkeling.

What You Need to Know: The Swedish Navy’s Gotland-class submarine, built between 1992 and 1996, revolutionized diesel-electric submarines with its Stirling engine air-independent propulsion (AIP ...

What made the diesel-electric Gotland unique was that it was the first submarine designed from the start to use AIP (air-independent propulsion). With AIP it could remain submerged for 19 days.

The second of the three-boat Gotland-class submarines is through its midlife overhaul and in sea trials, Saab says.

The three-boat Gotland class were constructed between 1990-1997 and had already received upgrades in the early years of their service life, before the latest upgrade process. Mats Wicksell, head of ...

Saab delivered the second Gotland -class submarine to the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration after an extensive mid-life upgrade, it was announced on 16 December. The upgrades to HMS Uppland ...

Cyberattacks and undersea cable sabotage are blurring the line between war and peace and exposing holes in UK law, a ...

Dec. 18 (UPI) --A 1990s-era Swedish submarine was relaunched after a 12-month mid-life upgrade, defense contractor Saab announced Friday. The HMS Uppland, the second in the Gotland class of three ...